World: WHAT THEY ARE FIGHTING ABOUT

AT its simplest, the Russian-Chinese quarrel is over what strategy to
follow toward the ultimate victory of Communismand over who shall be
in charge of operations. But beneath this there lies a far deeper
split: the split between Communist theory and human reality.

Ever since Karl Marx predicted that the Revolution would break out in
industrially advanced Western Europe, while it actually came in
backward, agricultural Russia, such contradictions have haunted
Communism. Today, according to Marxist theory, capitalism should be in
its death throes, the working class in utter misery, and the former...